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A 10-year old hacker, going by the name of CyFi, demonstrated an iOS and Android hack to the DefCon Kids section of the conference today.

The exploit is exceedingly simple, and leave it to a 10-year old to figure it out. CyFi was sick of waiting for her crops to grow in an unnamed game (*cough*farmville*cough*). Being a kid, and by nature impatient, she set the clock forward on her iPhone and presto her crops were already grown!

Manipulating time in games is nothing new, and many developers have coded against such an exploit. However, CyFi discovered disconnecting the phone from wi-fi and making smaller incremental time adjustments circumvented most blockades.

To top it off CyFi is "an artist who has performed an improvised, 10-minute-long spoken word piece in front of 1,000 people at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, a Girl Scout, and a state-ranked downhill skier." What doesn't this girl do?

She's 10, and figured out how to do it. That's the point. Don't bad mouth her because you couldn't figure it out. Whether it be a cheat, glitch, or hack - it doesn't matter. When she gets a little older,ad a little more "experienced and educated" in the hacking world - she will be pulling off some pretty amazing feats, I'm sure.

Apparently she doesn't play games the way they were intended to be played. So basically PATIENCE is what she doesn't do.

She may not be a hacker, but she already embodies two of the three principal virtues of a programmer,
and "using computers in ways they were not intended" is the garden path from which all hackery springs.

She may not be a hacker, but she already embodies two of the three principal virtues of a programmer,
and "using computers in ways they were not intended" is the garden path from which all hackery springs.